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Roland17:
I hate to sound like I am picking on him but you raised it with the embolden and I feel like I need to address it.

He conceded a silly foul in a dangerous area around the top of the box which led to the free-kick that subsequently led to United's first equalizer.

Against Bournemouth, he was running helter-skelter when he was drawn into a Bournemouth possession and away from his position which led to the pass that opened the play for Bournemouth's equalizer.

Again, I believe he is a very good talent who is way ahead of his age. He has a great upside and I am very excited about him. I have always preached about his talent, even before we got him from PSG. I think we should be open to player criticism in this era even for young players because footballer are people of habit and rituals especially when they are young. Ramsey was 19 when Shawcross broke his leg but it has not stopped us from being critical of some aspects of his game.

The reason we got him is to slowly transition him to the midfield but he still needs a lot to happen for that to materialize.

I maybe wrong,but I'm for fouling opposition from running through our midfield and entering our 18 yard box. Xhaka stopped Ali leading to Kane's free kick, I wouldn't cast blame on xhaka or mustafi for fouling a player before running into the box,

Even if they had scored.Not all free kick scores.

I'll risk that than allow what hazard did against us 2ce. He once ran passed Carzola and Arterta,leading to kosc fouling him and conceding penalty. Also running past coq and eventually scoring.

What I understand error to mean is, lossing possession or being robbed off the ball, leading to goals, misplacing a pass leading.

Iwobi lost the ball in our oppostion's box against Bournemouth, they countered us and none of our midfielders and defenders could stop them.

According to who scored.com he has 0 error leading to goals.

He needs time to mature into a modric and pirlo, hopefully he will come and do a xavi on stoke in future I agree with the rest you say bro.

Comparing Mustafi & Van Dijk in the @premierleague this season.

Mustafi:
Games: 15
Goals: 2
Tackles Won: 21
Interceptions: 31
Clearances: 93
Aerial Battles Won: 58
#AFC

Van Dijk:
Games: 15
Goals: 0
Tackles Won: 13
Interceptions: 16
Clearances: 88
Aerial Battles Won: 68
#LFC https:///f6TdEPPOdB

Personally, I think mustafi deserves some credit, he's improved a lot.despite being erratic a times, he's keep his head up,kept improving and quite consistent.

Sadly, Stoke butchered Holding outta the season,hopefully kosc will come in to do the job now.

chidexxy007:
But but... his team isnt a UCL team na, i say he deserves his inclusion

Intending...

eph12:
OK next time go for the W from kick off. Thank

We thought we were playing the real Man United at kickoff, until we saw Jam-body, and Hair-master.

kokaneprodigy:
Keyword not ready

He got a rating of 7 same as Torriera, yet the keyword you saw was 'not ready' ignoring 'probably' and 'physically' to complete the phrase.

Well, I saw 'best passer', and 'taking responsibility'.

KevinDein:
Arsenal met city at the start of the season when Emery hasn't even fully implemented his system and they didn't concede four.

Please, I understand everyone should have an opinion especially on public forum but I will appreciate it if you just stop quoting my comments. Your knowledge of football is rather poor and it's a torture having to read your comments.

Thanks for your understanding.

Understanding and ndidibabe are like fish and desert.

KevinDein:
Yes, that same squad.

He inherited a squad that had De Bruyne, David Silva, Fernandinho, Aguero and 50 million pounds Sterling as the core and then spent a couple of hundreds of millions to strengthen it. That squad won the league just 2 seasons earlier. Compare that to the Arsenal squad which just finished a distant 6th last season and has the mentally weak and inconsistent Ozil and Mhiki, the error prone Mustafi and Xhaka, the out of form and inexperience Iwobi and Bellerin. Only Aubameyang and Lacazette can be said to be really great players.

The squad Pep inherited from Pellegrini is so much better than the one Wenger handed to Emery is not even a joke.

(Pep/city fans should stop seeing my post as a dig at Pep. It's more to put the good work Emery has done at Arsenal in perspective)

Revisionism dey sweet ehn.

KDB was played out of position. Silva, brilliant but never producing this amount of output that we currently see. Fernandinho, good, but Wilshere and co ran circles round him just before Pep. Let me add, Ozil was 42M, Mhiki 35M, Xhaka 35M. Not to add Auba and Laca who both cost 115M. Wenger tried to pay 92M for lemar (money was not his problem). He even tried to get Mbappe.

As for Bellerin, LOL. Pep would have taken Bellerin over Sagna and Zabaleta. Even over Danilo. Nacho and Kolasinac will start over Gael Clichy. Pep is playing Zinchenko and Delph as LBs FFS.

I dedicated one paragraph to talk about Raheem-inefficient-5-goals-a season-misses-big-chances-Sterling. Iwobi today is Raheem when Pep came. Potential. You guys make up reality as you go. I can pick 4 players in this side that will still play for City today.

Of course, Pep's present squad is better than the one Unai Emery inherited. But the quality of teams both inherited? fa fa foul. You are using their present form to judge who they were then.

2 seasons ago is a long time in football. Ask Alexis. That City squad went 1- 2- 4 before Pep.

Eruditor:
Revisionism dey sweet ehn.

KDB was played out of position. Silva, brilliant but never producing this amount of output that we currently see. Fernandinho, good, but Wilshere and co ran circles round him just before Pep. Let me add, Ozil was 42M, Mhiki 35M, Xhaka 35M. Not to add Auba and Laca who both cost 115M. Wenger tried to pay 92M for lemar (money was not his problem). He even tried to get Mbappe.

As for Bellerin, LOL. Pep would have taken Bellerin over Sagna and Zabaleta. Even over Danilo. Nacho and Kolasinac will start over Gael Clichy. Pep is playing Zinchenko and Delph as LBs FFS.

I dedicated one paragraph to talk about Raheem-inefficient-5-goals-a season-misses-big-chances-Sterling. Iwobi today is Raheem when Pep came. Potential. You guys make up reality as you go. I can pick 4 players in this side that will still play for City today.

Of course, Pep's present squad is better than the one Unai Emery inherited. But the quality of teams both inherited? fa fa foul. You are using their present form to judge who they were then.

2 seasons ago is a long time in football. Ask Alexis. That City squad went 1- 2- 4 before Pep.

The comparison is not about whether Emery is better than Pep.

It's about the difficulty each faced in changing the fortunes of their teams.

Pep had money, something Emery doesn't.

Money make things easier.

Spy360:
The comparison is not about whether Emery is better than Pep.

It's about the difficulty each faced in changing the fortunes of their teams.

Pep had money, something Emery doesn't.

Money make things easier.

I am not even arguing about their coaching. I am challenging the talk that the team Pep inherited was significantly better than what Wenger left Unai.

City have spending money, yes..but that does not mean Unai has nothing. It is just not true. You saw me listing out how much Wenger coughed out and was willing to.

Ozil will play today cos of a less physical Huddersfield
Mtchewww


Well he didn't make the squad

Monrẹ́al is back...good news

2 strikers for the first time in how many years

sod09:
Monrẹ́al is back...good news

Great news. He will fit in at the left side of the back three. Kolasinac, just like Bellerin, is much better as a wing back. The back three system suits Kola and Bellerin.

We have looked indifferent and lethargic.

Come on now Auba you should be scoring that

How are our front2 fairing? Are we struggling to break them down? Issokay 0

Lacazette's miss is worse to even watch

We are so wasteful. 2 bad misses from both strikers.

We need to raise the energy and intensity level.

Roland17:
We have looked indifferent and lethargic.

look at the midfield, if I talk they’ll say I don’t like him.

That’s how I was criticising Giroud and Cech since 2 seasons ago, Spy and some folks no let me rest we all saw how it turned out.

What I’ve discovered is that some peeps attention to detail here is abysmal. What I see now it’ll take Spy and co series of woeful game before they see it.

Looks like these guys are targeting Torreira was some very dangerous tackles.

Someone is going to get a red card in this game. The ref has lost control with tackles flying everywhere.

Sokratis gets 1. 3 yellow cards for each team. We have had serious difficulty controlling our emotions and composure recently.

That is a ridiculous offside call.

This linesman is very very fooolish for this kind of call.

Roland17:
That is a ridiculous offside call.

English Ref are disgrace to football

Torreira with a terrific long-range shot.

What kind of ref is this...that was a clear pk and you booked mustafi

A 4th yellow card for Arsenal as Mustafi gets his share.

We are going to be without Mustafi and Sokratis for the game against Southampton.

That’s no clear PK

sod09:
What kind of ref is this...that was a clear pk and you booked mustafi

I thought you offside when you anticipate the ball

kokaneprodigy:
That’s no clear PK

how

sod09:
I thought you offside when you anticipate the ball

The linesman was clearly wrong there. Laca was returning from an offside position when Auba headed the ball but Huddersfield defender touched the ball by passing to the goalie and that made Laca active again.